On November 21, the journalist Mustafa Nayem called in facebook for people to gather to protest against the decision of Yanukovych’s government back then to suspend the preparations for the signing of the Ukraine-European Union...
1. ATO. “The Anti-Terrorist Operation cannot and will not last 2-3 months. It has to and will last hours… We will see the efficiency of the anti-terrorist operation very soon,” Poroshenko stated at a briefing on May 28, several days...
I am the world’s most travelled man. I have flown 26 million kilometers on airplanes and twice made it to the Guinness Book of World Records. I am an Englishman by nationality and a traveler by profession. My business is to write about...
“When I saw the livestreams from Maidan, I wanted immediately to go fly to Kyiv. I never felt any patriotism for Ukraine before, I left my home town in 1994 and made my career here. But then I felt that something big was happening....
The Russian army has entered the territory of Ukraine once again. Our president and leadership of the majority bloc have been following the example of our European friends, expressing empty gestures of indignation and outrage. Our entire...
Alleged elections. I think the people there still don’t know today what a truly democratic election is. No real election observers, only radical left-wing and radical right-wing henchmen brought in by the Russians as observers, needed as...
It was at that panel discussion that I discovered who I want to be. I want to be a professor of political science. You get to travel around all sorts of People’s Republics of Asses-stan, you get to observe people, socialize with them,...
We started KyivPride, first in Ukrainian history, only two years ago, but it seems like we already had a decade of fighting for the political pride movement in Ukraine. We created a small group of activists and started KyivPride in 2012 as...
I usually don’t write much, but felt like posting my thoughts: I’m writing because I’m upset. And the more I tell myself to calm down and let it all go – the more it upsets me. Because that is the whole problem...
On October 17, at a symposium on “Negotiating Borders” organized by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, Ivan Katchanovski, an Ottawa-based scholar, presented a paper on “The ‘Snipers’...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
